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Tony Calder (record plugger) : The week before Love Me Do came out, Brian Epstein asked if I could drum up some press on them. They meant nothing in London, but I talked everybody into it and trotted them down to Melody Maker, NME and Disc - and they all did these little 15-minute interviews, which was all you got in those days. When we got to this magazine called Beat Instrumental, there was an objectionable young man called David Cardwell with terrible acne, who seemed to have a sort of tabloid mentality, very aggressive, looking for the dirt. As we left, the lads said, "Strike him off the list. We won't be doing him again." They were well sussed, even then.
Years later, in the '70s, I was shopping in Bloomingdales in New York and I heard this unmistakable voice behind me saying, "Has that little shit Cardwell still got spots?" I turned round and, of course, it was John, with baby Sean in a backpack.
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David Jacobs (radio deejay) : I went to dinner at my mother's and she had put on a spread for a man who was married to my cousin. He said, 'I work for a store in Liverpool, and my boss, Brian Epstein, has asked me to play you a record. He wants the group to be very successful and, if you can help in any way, he will give you a large percentage of the record.' I said, 'That's very kind of you but I've never done that sort of thing. I couldn't present them on a programme if I was financially involved.' I asked him their name and, when he said 'The Beatles', I thought, 'How very unattractive.'
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Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) : Then The Beatles' first record comes out. They've got harmonica. We'd heard they did Chuck Berry songs - but we were really brought down; it was the beginning of Beatlemania. Then, suddenly, everybody's lookin' round for new groups, more and more groups are being signed, and Alexis Korner gets a recording contract. He's gotten so big he splits from this club gig, and who gets his spot? None other than . . . The Rolling Stones. Now we start makin' just about enough bread to stay alive. And we're gettin' this place raving. And there was another place, called Eel Pie Island, down on the Thames, we used to play regularly. It's really jumpin' at these places.
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Joe Cocker : I was up late one night and I heard Love Me Do. I remember thinking, 'I wonder who the hell that was?' You know that little bit of soul that Paul sings? 'Whoa, Love Me Do'? I'd never heard any other singer do that on a pop record. And, sure enough, a couple of weeks later it was a phenomenon that came all around England. We realised that, at last, someone had broken that sacred barrier.
Marjorie Cocker (mother of Joe Cocker] : When Joe left school at 16, I thought he was going to take up gas fitting as a career. I even got him a lot of books on the subject, and he was interested in gas for a time, but there was always the music. That was what he wanted to do. He told me he didn't' want a job where he worked for years and years and then got presented a gold watch at the end. I don't disapprove of Joe's lifestyle. I used to worry a lot about drugs. I've never had them, but I've always said I enjoy a drink and I think it is just the same as having a drink.
(Source : Life magazine, 24 September, 1971)
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Years later, in the '70s, I was shopping in Bloomingdales in New York and I heard this unmistakable voice behind me saying, "Has that little shit Cardwell still got spots?" I turned round and, of course, it was John, with baby Sean in a backpack.
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David Jacobs (radio deejay) : I went to dinner at my mother's and she had put on a spread for a man who was married to my cousin. He said, 'I work for a store in Liverpool, and my boss, Brian Epstein, has asked me to play you a record. He wants the group to be very successful and, if you can help in any way, he will give you a large percentage of the record.' I said, 'That's very kind of you but I've never done that sort of thing. I couldn't present them on a programme if I was financially involved.' I asked him their name and, when he said 'The Beatles', I thought, 'How very unattractive.'
(Source : unknown)
Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) : Then The Beatles' first record comes out. They've got harmonica. We'd heard they did Chuck Berry songs - but we were really brought down; it was the beginning of Beatlemania. Then, suddenly, everybody's lookin' round for new groups, more and more groups are being signed, and Alexis Korner gets a recording contract. He's gotten so big he splits from this club gig, and who gets his spot? None other than . . . The Rolling Stones. Now we start makin' just about enough bread to stay alive. And we're gettin' this place raving. And there was another place, called Eel Pie Island, down on the Thames, we used to play regularly. It's really jumpin' at these places.
(Source : unknown)
Joe Cocker : I was up late one night and I heard Love Me Do. I remember thinking, 'I wonder who the hell that was?' You know that little bit of soul that Paul sings? 'Whoa, Love Me Do'? I'd never heard any other singer do that on a pop record. And, sure enough, a couple of weeks later it was a phenomenon that came all around England. We realised that, at last, someone had broken that sacred barrier.
Marjorie Cocker (mother of Joe Cocker] : When Joe left school at 16, I thought he was going to take up gas fitting as a career. I even got him a lot of books on the subject, and he was interested in gas for a time, but there was always the music. That was what he wanted to do. He told me he didn't' want a job where he worked for years and years and then got presented a gold watch at the end. I don't disapprove of Joe's lifestyle. I used to worry a lot about drugs. I've never had them, but I've always said I enjoy a drink and I think it is just the same as having a drink.
(Source : Life magazine, 24 September, 1971)